Meetings

Monday, December 5, 7:00pm

The topic is  "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of German Military Records”.  

The speaker will be Teresa Steinkamp McMillan, board certified genealogist specializing in German genealogy,  Teresa is the owner of Lind Street Research, a company dedicated to helping people discover their German ancestry.

 Please join us for the December hybrid  German Interest Group meeting at our traditional location: St. Mark Lutheran Church located at 2921 Mt. Zion Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin.  If you live in the  Janesville area, we hope that you can make it.  

 Zoom The Zoom option is still available for those who want to participate remotely. The Zoom  link will be sent to all currrent GIG members.

Future Speakers:

January        No meeting.  Happy new year!  Frohes neues Jahr!

February 6  Antje Petty, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.  Her program is titled "Jakob Sternberger: A Forty-Eighter and Farmer in Wisconsin."  He was a German speaking immigrant from Bohemia.  Max Kade has an extensive letter collection from his family that this program is based on.  

March 6   John Wasserstass talking about his heritage trip to NW Germany in May 2022

April 3     Edward Langer who has done extensive research on Czech-German immigrants to the Waterloo, Wisconsin area.  

Note:  Meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Monday of the month except for January, July and September. Meetings were held on Zoom-only due to Covid. This meeting is both in-person and on Zoom.  GIG members will receive an email link to join the Zoom presentation. Not a member? click here.

Normally we meet at 7:00 pm at St. Mark Lutheran Church located at 2921 Mt. Zion Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin.